Police: Trumbull shooters were seeking revenge

By Daniel Tepfer

Updated
9:07 pm EDT, Monday, April 2, 2018

TRUMBULL - Bridgeport police have yet to make an arrest in last year’s fatal shooting of Chaz Rogers but police said Hassan “Boobie” Rogers has his own idea who killed his younger brother and has attempted to administer a little street justice.

Hassan Rogers, 48, and a friend, 29-year-old Stephen Taylor were recently charged with attempted murder after police said they shot up the car of a man they believe was involved in Chaz Rogers’ death on Old Town Road here last September.

Police said the victim, whose identity is not being disclosed, was driving on Old Town Road near White Plains Road about 3 p.m. on Sept. 14, when Rogers and Taylor pulled alongside in another car and began firing numerous rounds.

The victim, who suffered a gunshot wound in his right side, managed to drive himself to St. Vincent’s Medical Center where he later recovered, police said.

Chaz Rogers, 37, was shot to death on Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport on July 1, 2017.

Police said Hassan Rogers, who is only recently out of federal prison after serving a term for distributing heroin, had been charged in August with threatening a family member of the victim of September’s shooting.

“Rogers believes that the victim (of the September shooting) had an involvement in Rogers’ brother being murdered,” the arrest affidavit states.

In a subsequent interview with Taylor, police said Taylor told them that the victim of the September shooting was paid to kill Chaz Rogers “over an incident with a female.”